Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Giovio, La vita di Ferrando Davalo di Pescara, Florence, 1551, contemporary limp vellum

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800 - 1,200 GBP

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GIOVIO, PAOLO. La Vita di Ferrando Davalo Marchese di Pescara. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, February 1551


FIRST EDITION OF THE ITALIAN TRANSLATION BY LODOVICO DOMENICHI, A VERY CLEAN, WIDE-MARGINED COPY.


Giovio's biography of Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos, Marquis of Pescara (1489-1525), a central figure in the service of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire during the Italian Wars, and the husband of the poet, Vittoria Colonna. This biography was first published in Latin and included in Giovio's Vitae. For another octavo volume in limp vellum from the Fugger family library, see lot 1856 (Tolomei).

8vo (153 x 98 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 Aa-Bb8 (R4 missigned E4, Z4 missigned H4): 200 leaves (final leaf blank). Woodcut initials, wide margins. (Small tear to upper margin of L5.)


binding: Contemporary pale limp vellum (160 x 103 mm), slight fore-edge flaps, title in ink on upper cover in a sixteenth-century neat humanistic hand, flat spine with early title in ink running down, remains of pasted label, edges gilt with twin dots gauffered around sides. (Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, tear without loss to head of spine.)


provenance: Fugger family library, eighteenth-century shelfmark on upper endleaf, by descent to—Fürstlich Öttingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek, Harburg—sale, Sotheby's, 5 December 1991, lot 114 (part lot), to Maggs Bros. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from Maggs Bros., London. references: Edit16 CNCE 21180; USTC 833180

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